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Recultivation - shale quarry

123.45

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The activity generating the emissions is recultivation, shale quarry. The reference product is recultivation, shale quarry. This is delivering the service of recultivation of a shale quarry mine. The process represents the recultivation of 1 m2 of topsoil after shale quarry extraction with coverage of an assumed average thickness of 0.3 m and a density of 1400 kg/m3. The mass of topsoil per m2 is circa 420 kg, while the ratio of topsoil to extracted shale quarry is 0.26%. The service includes land transformation from mine to forest and the machines needed but it excludes the refill material. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/11360/documentation.

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NameRecultivation - shale quarry
SectorLand Use
CategoryLand Use Change
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Year
2014
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/m2
Scopes
XX,XX
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
xxx
Data Versioning
  • Status: Replaced
  • Replaced in: 29Version log
  • Replaced by: 0abab420-539c-4019-b226-d2d5da7c8bd3

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